Re: Why are anaerobic organisms simple and aerobic organisms complex?

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From: William Tivol
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:00

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Joy Abramson (ad954@torfree.net) wrote:
: Why are anaerobic organisms limited to being simple, small, and 
: unicellular while aerobic organisms may be large complex, and 
: multicellular?

Dear Joy,
	My guess is that anaerobes extract only about 5% of the useful energy
from food compared to aerobes.
				Yours,
				Bill Tivol

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From: tivol@news.wadsworth.org (William Tivol)
Subject: Re: Why are anaerobic organisms simple and aerobic organisms complex?
Date: 1995/11/29
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